Thoughts from the interface of science, religion, law and culture

After spending several years touring the country as a stand up comedian, Ed Brayton tired of explaining his jokes to small groups of dazed illiterates and turned to writing as the most common outlet for the voices in his head. He has appeared on the Rachel Maddow Show and the Thom Hartmann Show, and is almost certain that he is the only person ever to make fun of Chuck Norris on C-SPAN.

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Beck: Romney = Abraham Lincoln

Glenn Beck and David Barton waxed eloquent on Beck’s show recently about the absurd claim that Lincoln’s declaration of a day of prayer won the civil war, and then Beck declared, and Barton agreed, that Mitt Romney is the next Abraham Lincoln because he’ll listen to God. You can’t make this shit up.

Romney = Lincoln? Let’s see:
– Lincoln freed the slaves; Romney enslaved pensioners
– Lincoln’s cabinet was composed of men (hey, it was the 1860s!!) from all parties; Gov Romney cabinet had “binders of women”
– Lincoln led the North in war, which ultimately reunited the United States; Romney spent about 2 years in France as a morman missionary even though he supported the war as a Stanford student
– Lincoln fired generals for incompetence; Romney likes to fire people who “provide him services”
– Lincoln was a man of the people; Romney is a man of the people as long as those “people” are corporations ( “my friend”)
– Lincoln was steadfast in his beliefs; Romney is the “great flipflopper”
– Lincoln believed in the Union; Romney hates unions

StevoR:
If that happened. Then Abe Romney would be for freeing the slaves until he changed his mind, then tax cuts, and more slavery because slaves aren’t job creators and need to take more responsibility. But I bet he’d have binders full of black people.